General information

Anna Priante is a PhD candidate at the departments of Public Administration and NIKOS (Netherlands Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship) at the University of Twente. Her PhD project focuses on the effectiveness of Twitter cancer awareness campaigns on prevention and early detection behavior. The goal of the project is explaining how online sustained identities at the individual, collective and organizational level explain the effectiveness of online campaigns in stimulating desired offline behaviors. Her research aims to contribute to social movement and organizations, network and identity literature. Methodologically, it exploits the potential of Big Data methods combined with qualitative and quantitative approaches by utilizing a unique dataset obtained via a Twitter #datagrant. Anna is part of the team that in 2014 received one of the first six awarded Twitter #datagrants for a study of online cancer awareness campaigns, such as #Movember (prostate and testicular cancer). Anna’s PhD advisors are prof. dr. Ariana Need, dr. Michel Ehrenhard and dr. Tijs van den Broek.

Anna obtained a BSc in Sociology (cum Laude, 2012) and a MSc in Sociology and Social Research (cum Laude, 2015) at the University of Trento (Italy). Her master thesis focused on processes of public communication of science on Twitter. During her Master program Anna has also collaborated with two research groups located in Trento and Vicenza (Italy). Science Technology and Society (STSTN) is an interdisciplinary project of the University of Trento which aims at developing awareness among researchers of issues concerning the relationship between science and society. Observa Science in Society is a non-profit, independent research center that promotes the study and discussion of the interaction among science, technology and society, with the aim of stimulating dialogue among researchers, policy makers and citizens.

Participation at conferences, workshops, schools

NLP+CSS: Workshops on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science

NLP+CSS Doctoral Consortium

Big Data & Analytics Summer School at Essex University in Colchester, UK (5-16 September 2016)

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) in Anaheim, Los Angeles (5-9 August 2016).

OCIS Doctoral Consortium

International Paper Development workshop

UT CBS Data Camp at the University of Twente, The Netherlands (23-27 November 2015). Datacamp on big data analysis and technologies organized by the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands (CBS) and the University of Twente (UT).

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) in Vancouver, Canada (7-11 August 2015). Professional Development Workshop with Ronald S. Burt (University of Chicago) and Tiziana Casciaro (University of Toronto).

Ethnography of Big Data and Ethnography of Documents at the University of Trento, Italy (16/18 June 2014). Workshop with David Hakken (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) and Kalpana Shankar (UCD Dublin).

Teaching Assistant in the courses Sociology of Science (Bachelor program) and Communication, Science and Technology (Master program) with prof. Massimiano Bucchi (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento) – Academic years 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.